Rapper Earl Hayes shot his wife Stephanie Moseley and then himself in their Los Angeles home yesterday in what cops are calling a murder-suicide. Hayes's friend Floyd Mayweather apparently watched the tragedy unfold on FaceTime. Now, TMZ is reporting that Hayes may have been jealous over his Moseley's alleged affair with Trey Songz.
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Stephen Colbert's farewell Colbert Report tour landed its biggest guest yet: President Obama. The leader of the free world stopped by for an interview with Colbert, but not before guest hosting "The Word" segment, rebranded for presidential dignity as "The Decree."
Tom Hanks, beloved actor and father of rapper Chet Haze, finally found someone impervious to his legendary charm. It's still unclear how the woman managed to resist Hanks' affable personality, which once carried two-and-a-half hours of monologuing to a volleyball.
A rapper killed his actress wife and then shot himself in a gruesome murder-suicide today—all, apparently, while Floyd Mayweather watched in horror over FaceTime.
Everyone's just suing and countersuing all willy-nilly now in the Dr. Luke/Kesha sex abuse standoff, with Lady Gaga dragged into the mess as a potential witness in at least two civil suits. Hope she likes depositions :(
Carol Lackner, the Rikers Island prison guard who reportedly left her post as James Murdough died of hyperthermia in February, was arrested and charged with lying about the incident today, the New York Daily News reports. Murdough, who was homeless and suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, "basically baked to death" in his 101-degree-cell, officials told the Associated Press at the time.
Dan Bilzerian, the rich asshole whose popular Instagram account exemplifies the version of the American dream where Lady Liberty has immense fake tits and a thongload of cash, spent the weekend partying in Miami at Art Basel. This is what rich assholes do. But, as it sometimes does, Bilzerian's partying ended with a woman accidentally getting hurt.
The Daily Mail has an "exclusive" interview with the father of the alleged gang rape victim at the center of Rolling Stone's now-crumbling story about UVa fraternities. The 61-year-old man says his daughter Jackie "told the truth" about her rape, although she may have misidentified the frat where it took place.
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Rolling Stone's blockbuster story about an alleged gang rape at UVa's Phi Psi house has all but fallen apart after questions about the reporting process and a bullshit, blanket denial from Phi Psi forced the magazine to disavow its source's account of gang rape. The source and alleged victim, Jackie, is sticking by her story, but managing editor Will Dana's note that Rolling Stone's "trust in her was misplaced" has left her hanging out to dry. Now Jackie's old roommate, Emily Clark, is defending her in the student paper.
Three people are confirmed dead after a small plane crashed into a home in Gaithersburg, Md. this morning; three of the people who live in the home are currently unaccounted for.
On Wednesday, after the announcement that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted for killing Eric Garner, the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted a series of tweets naming 76 men and women who were killed in police custody since the 1999 death of Amadou Diallo in New York. Starting with the most recent death, what follows are more detailed accounts of many of those included in the Legal Defense Fund's tweets.
What you see above is a portion of the flyer for Urban Outfitters' 2014 office holiday party, which is taking place on Wednesday at the retailer's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia. As you can see, employees are being asked to dress up in some mish-mash of Orientalist signifiers so obviously offensive that two separate Urban employees forwarded the image to us this morning.
